A modified view of our origins
The Christian beginnings of modern individualism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4372667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis Dumont (Formerly of Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-26 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/006996683017001001 |
| OpenAlex | W2050522533 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 91 |
| References cited | 22 |
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Individualism · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
Life, Death, and the State
Race as a political frontier against caste
Judeo-Christian Religious Experience and Psychopathology
Sustaining otherness
Reasons for violence
Self-expression and linguistic variation
Parsons on the Evolutionary Significance of American Religion
Tradition and Christianity
Recognizing Rhetoric in Sociological Theory
Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy
Afterword
‘Greater love …’
The Bible Meets the Idol
The Eternal Return of Conversion
Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia
Scripture Study as Normal Science
Possession and Confession
Anxious Transcendence
Bodies and persons
Meditation in Modern Buddhism
The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India
People are STRANGE
Injustice and the New World Order
Weber on anomie
Maat. Sprawiedliwość i nieśmiertelność w starożytnym Egipcie
Henri Hubert, racial science and political myth
The Indian Gift
The Importance of the Concepts of “Organism” and “Evolution” in Emile Durkheim’s Division of Social Labor and the Influence of Herbert Spencer
Self, Identity, and Individuality
Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft
Forgetting Conversion
The Effectiveness of Ritual
Materializing the Self
Henri Hubert, Racial Science and Political Myth
Renewable Icons
After Kinship
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society
Comparison in Anthropology
Entre "teoterapias" y "laicoterapias
Is the Western Conception of the Self "Peculiar" within the Context of the World Cultures
What Is the Western Concept of the Self? On Forgetting David Hume
Protestant Buddhism
Societies, Individuals and Sociology
The Mormon Archive's First Ten Thousand Years
Did Christianity lead to schizophrenia? Psychosis, psychology and self reference
The Human Version 2.0
Moving cultures
Transforming Relations of Gender, Person, and Agency in Oceania
Stregkoder, Sparegrise Og Barnedåb
Rethinking Modes of Political Participation
Keeping quiet
Acculturation conditions and orientations of Afghan and Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Turkey
Evangelical violence
Providing places for structures of feeling and hierarchical complementarity in urban theory
Reinterpreting individualism and collectivism
Oneness and ‘the church in Taiwan’
The Topography of The Female Self in Indian Therapeutic Cults
Speaking the Devil's language
The Anthropology of Secularism
On the Origins of Mindfulness
The Ambiguity of the Modern Conception of Autonomy and the Paradox of Culture
Opting out' in theravada buddhism and medieval christianity
Reflexive modernity and the religious body
The sexual life of the saints
The beginnings of religion, with special attention to the North America board
Transcendental visions-Other worldliness-And its transformations
Une égalité sans équivalence. Pour une anthropologie du commun
Religion,' 'the Secular' and the Critical Study of Religion
Origins of the West
A Humanistic Theory of Theory
From the Archive
And Why an Indian Sociology
For a Sociology of India
The Ranking of Brotherhoods
January 2008 Contributions to Indian Sociology at fifty
Secularism in Its Place
The Subject of Virtue
Anthropology and the study of contradictions
Culture and Social Structure Revisited
Secularisation and the Sikh Religious Tradition
The spaces of religion
Equality without equivalence
The discovery of the individual, 1050-1200.
Philosophy of Right
Homo hierarchicus
Die Soziallehren der christlichen Kirchen und Gruppen (1912)
Early Theological Writings
Politics and Exegesis
The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages (Routledge Library Editions
The Lands of St Peter
The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages
Tradition and Authority in the Western Church, 300-1140
Hegels Lehre vom absoluten Geist als theologisch-politischer Traktat
Politics and Exegesis
History of Political Thought
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Sociological Analysis
An Introduction to Philo Judaeus
Melchisedech and the Emperor
Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Georg Jellinek as Comparative Historical Sociologists
The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages
Tradition and Authority in the Western Church
Sociological Analysis
| Unique citing works | 82 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,07 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2025 (44) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 82 |